Chapter 33: Abacus I

Jade porcelain kept going back and forth to take care of Lan Ting, the third prince had gone to the front yard to eat, Di Yue had been in a daze beside him, Yu Porcelain wanted Di Yue to help her put Lan Ting's medicine from the table to her, called for a long time and did not respond, walked to Di Yue and shook his hand still did not respond.

Holding Di Yue's shoulders with both hands, he shook it back and forth vigorously to shake Di Yue back to his senses.

"What did you just say is a good person? Yueyue, how can you still stand in a daze? ”

Yuci looked at Di Yue with an ignorant expression, like a child who had just woken up looking at her, and couldn't help but be amused by Di Yue's expression.

"Are you really willing to marry him?"

Di Yue didn't care about anything else, and said casually.

"I have known him for a long time, but I didn't expect him to be the third prince's person, and Yueyue, your kick is really powerful, with you covering me, this kid will definitely not dare to bully me in the future."

Yuci's face was smiling, her cheeks revealed a hint of redness, Di Yue believed that Yuci was really interested in Lanting, but she was still not at ease.

"And what does he mean to you? I dare to belittle you in public. ”

"Actually, he confessed to me a long time ago, otherwise I wouldn't know that there was such a person, I didn't agree before, I haven't seen him for half a year, who knew that he would make fun of me as soon as he appeared today, so I chased him and beat him.

The matter is very clear here, Di Yue also has a score in his heart, so he no longer asks about it, Lang has a concubine who has intentions, but she is worrying blindly.

"Then I'll go back and prepare for the afternoon game, you stay and take care of him, don't worry about me, I'll win."

Di Yue went back after explaining this, and left the jade porcelain, after all, it was not good for the jade porcelain to leave the Lanting Pavilion to accompany her at this time, and the jade porcelain was not easy to say, so it was up to her to say it herself.

Di Yue walked out of the room, the sun hit his face, raised his hand to block the dazzling light, and saw the light of the stars through the gap between his fingers, the sun in early spring was not strong, but it was always a little uncomfortable to experience the warmth of the sun again after a whole winter.

Di Yue felt that the sunshine at this time was extremely dazzling, because her heart was a little complicated, she had just made a friend in this strange environment, and in the blink of an eye, the friend belonged to someone else, she had some gains and losses, after all, she had just filled in the shadow of a person from the blank of her feelings with nothing, but she didn't expect to find Ruyi Langjun so soon, and she would have to rely on herself in the future.

The appearance of Lan Ting disturbed Di Yue's heart, making her mistakenly think that she had lost her friendship with Yu Porcelain, Yu Porcelain's eyes were now full of Lan Ting, Di Yue felt that Lan Ting was a bit of an eyesore, and she would never admit that she was jealous of Lan Ting anymore.

For Di Yue, it was hard to find a trace of comfort in this strange environment, but in a blink of an eye, he lost it again, and felt a little confused in his heart, squinting at this pure sky, clear water and blue sky, white clouds floating comfortably, why did he treat himself so cruelly, did God really want to let herself lose all her relatives and friends, and let her be lonely for a lifetime?

Sort out your thoughts, take back the uncomfortable mood in your eyes, the burden on her shoulders is too heavy, and she can't breathe too fast, but what can she do, this world is about to be destroyed by the demons, and the hatred of the country and the family are entangled together, and she can't help but grit her teeth and insist.

There are a thousand ways to live a thousand people, and she believes that she is far from the most unfortunate, at least she has a happy childhood, parents who love her, and a new life, so that she feels much better.

After a short rest, Di Yue came to the account room to participate in the first assessment "abacus", and twenty people sat down separately, with an abacus in front of them.

A brush, an inkstone.

"Now you can familiarize yourself with the abacus in front of you first, and if there is a problem, you can change it now, and conduct an assessment after checking that it is correct."

The white steward announced the competition with the majesty of the elders.

Still dressed in goose yellow clothes, still with a cold face, but the aura around him is obviously worse than in the morning, knowing what happened to this girl today, everyone is talking about this girl after kicking the followers of the three princes, and she can still come to participate in the competition on time, she must be a person with some means, plus she is actually good at martial arts, and a group of weak scholars who are powerless are both in love and fear of her, and the bold dare to peek at her, and the timid dare not look at her at all.

After fiddling with the abacus a few times at random, Di Yue found that the abacus was not round enough, the abacus was too big and bulky, and it was inconvenient for his fingers to pluck it, so he raised his hand to ask for the abacus to be replaced.

"Did you find anything wrong with this abacus?"

The white steward saw that this girl was not afraid of power in front of the three princes, and he had some good feelings for her, and this girl was a lover of love and righteousness, and indeed he was also with his old man's character, so he was very patient with her.

Listening to the white steward's soft words and kind demeanor, Di Yue was a little confused, frowning, very puzzled, thinking about it and not understanding, so he simply accepted it.

"I don't have a good abacus to use, do you have a delicate and small abacus?"

Di Yue said her thoughts, in the palace her abacus is specially made of white jade chess pieces, that is she prepared a pair of Go for her father to make of the remaining materials, used as an abacus is very warm, and delicate, she is also handy to use, this is a kind of exquisite abacus she created, and later people who have seen her use imitate it, but it was widely popular for a while.

The white steward stroked Bai Huahua's beard, and tried to collect the abacus that met the requirements from his memory, he was old and had no wife and children, and only had a habit of collecting abacus, which could be regarded as adding a touch of fun to his life, and he had really collected a lot over the years.

"The old man has been engaged in the work of the accounting office for decades, and I have never seen our Jiang Liguo use a small abacus, the girl is not our Jiang Liguo's people? If you talk about a small abacus, I really have a handful here, it is said that it is a treasure that was passed down from the destroyed Dahua Dynasty, I have used it a few times, and it is not easy to put it away, but I still remember where to put it. ”

Then he turned and told the people around him to fetch it for him.

Di Yue didn't solve the confusion of the white steward, but sat quietly waiting for the abacus he said, she also wanted to see if it was really a relic of the Dahua Dynasty, if so, she had to find a way to get it.

Having a familiar object with you can always find a little solace in it.

When the abacus made of Bai Lanyu was presented to her, Di Yue couldn't help but be shocked, the beads of this abacus have many flaws, and it is because of this flaw that it looks worthless, so it will be used as a gift to give to the white steward, only Di Yue knows that this abacus is the one he made himself, because it is a piece of beautiful jade leftover after making chess pieces, it naturally does not look very high-grade, but Di Yue can't put it down.

snatched the abacus from the white steward, Di Yue's mood fluctuated a little, stroking the abacus, while slowly calming her mind, the familiar touch gave her a long-lost sense of intimacy, sweeping away the loss in the morning, Di Yue's whole person became bright again.

Looking at Di Yue's love for this abacus, Bai Guan was very surprised, after all, as we all know, the Dahua Dynasty was destroyed by the coalition forces of the vassal states, and none of the members of the royal family and nobles survived, and this was more than a hundred years ago, Bai Guan also felt that he was just thinking too much, how could this young girl have anything to do with the Dahua Dynasty that destroyed the country more than a hundred years ago.

I don't know if this girl just likes this exquisite workmanship, after all, she loved it when she first got it, but it was really not easy to use it herself, so she had to leave it idle.

"Girl, although this abacus is delicate and chic, it is difficult for ordinary people to control it, are you sure you want to choose this abacus? It is not possible to change the abacus after the game starts. ”

"I'm going to ask for it. Don't you think it's just right for me? ”

Since the white butler sent it to her, Di Yue was still grateful, and couldn't help but smile at the white butler.

Seeing the little girl who had been frowning and smiling again, the white steward didn't stop him much, after all, he still thought that Di Yue was just here to have enough fun, just be happy with her.

After confirming that everyone had no objection to the abacus obtained in their hands, the white steward announced the start of the assessment, the start of the incense lighting timer, and the distribution of the test papers.

Di Yue picked up the test paper and looked at it casually a few times before putting it aside, and then left and left with both hands and then bored and casually fiddling with abacus, as if he was playing a tune, looking relaxed and content.

When the test paper was distributed to the hands of the answerers, the white steward began to observe their demeanor, and saw a few people frowning at the test paper, so he was smug in his heart, and when he saw Di Yue casually picked up the test paper and swept it twice, he ignored it, and the white steward took it for granted that Di Yue would not be able to abacus.

Seeing that all the candidates were crackling and fiddling with the abacus, many of them had already calculated one-third of the content, and less than half of the time had passed, Di Yue slowly opened the test paper.

It's no wonder that Di Yue spends so much time fiddling with the abacus, after all, she has never used it yet, has she practiced her feel recently, it is not as fast as other people who often use the abacus, and the time she prepared by others just now She spent changing the abacus, and she fell behind at the beginning, which is normal.

Lay the test paper flat, adjust the abacus to the most suitable angle, and after getting ready, Di Yue looked at the time, estimated how much he needed to improve his calculation speed, and began to play with the abacus and start answering questions.

Di Yue increased the speed to one and a half times that of others for calculation, obviously the speed is much faster than others, but it gives others a feeling that she has put the speed very slowly, always feels that she still has room to spare, looks very leisurely, and she calculates each question twice, the results of the two times are exactly the same, there are no mistakes, and the white steward is very shocked.

If the competition is only to this extent, it is too much to underestimate the strict requirements of the white butler for the heir to his mantle.

When there was still a third of the time in the competition, and many people were congratulating that they had completed the calculations on time, the white steward handed out a second test paper to everyone, which had only half the questions of the previous one, but for many people there was not enough time.

didn't want to move the white butler and this trick, at this time the game was going on, several people chose to leave the field automatically, retreated to the waiting area outside and complained to each other.

Originally, there was not enough time for them, and the amount of questions suddenly increased, because this was the prince's mansion, everyone dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and the people who chose to stay were trying their best to calculate, and the sound of the abacus hitting was twice as loud as before.

Di Yue didn't expect such an accident at the conference, he didn't expect that the white steward would have such a mind, and he could use this assessment to let him see everyone's power, this arrangement made Di Yue look down on the white steward a few points, it seems that this prince's mansion hides a lot of capable people, Di Yue can't help but be curious about this prince who has left the country, what kind of person can attract these people with real talents.

Seeing that there was not enough time, Di Yue increased his speed again, but looking at the time, he felt that he still couldn't finish it if he continued like this, and Di Yue believed that no one here could complete it.

Suddenly, Di Yue heard the sound of the collision between the abacus beads in a corner, and someone next to him began to look at him calmly, exclaiming, but he didn't expect things to change suddenly, Di Yue thought that he couldn't hide it anymore, and he had to show his strength, otherwise it would not be easy to win.